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Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1916, Page 8

Cheques for £ls, £S and £5, 8S prizes of 5s each, also Special Gift V>ri7n« will be distributed on .Ttily 30 a users of Desert Gold Tea. .KARBOL, the best disinfectant, sold in Gd, Is and Is fid bottles, —Svkes, Chemist.' How a large British steamship narrowly escaped falling a victim to the German raider Moewe is (says the Melbourne Argus) told by Mr. John Lang, of Melbourne, who has been invalided home to Australia after several month.) of work amongst the sick and wounded Australian soldiers in Egypt and England. Mr. Lang says chat he was on hoard the Balmoral' Castle, a vessel ol 13,301 tons, belonging to the Union Castle Line, bound for South Africa. The vessel left Tilbury Dock, London, before it was known that the raider was at sea, and one night, when they were near Madeira, they received a wireless "S.O.S.'' signal from some steamship in distress, declaring that the vessel ivas on fire, and wanted assistance. The wireless operators on board the Balmoral Castle reported that there was something unfamiliar in the "tune" of the signal, which made them suspicions. While tin; captain was still in doubt as to what he should do, hd received another wireless message, this time from a British warship in the neighbourhood, telling him to stand back while Hie warship investigated the matter. It was afterwards discovered that it was the Moewe which had sent the "5.0.5." signal as a lure to draw the British liner within her net. .